Natasha Blakely: natasha.blakely@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Biden Administration relaunched the Federal Interagency Council on Outdoor Recreation (FICOR), an interagency effort to make access to the outdoors safer and more affordable. FICOR’s focus areas will include investing in resilient recreation infrastructure, bolstering career opportunities, improving equitable access to the outdoors, and more.
First created in 2011, FICOR launched Recreation.gov and worked to create the Every Kid Outdoors (EKO) Pass. The council was suspended for the entirety of the Trump Administration. FICOR’s return opens the doors wide for new opportunities for collaboration and marks a positive step toward the administration’s America the Beautiful goals to protect and expand access to 30% of all lands and waters in the United States by 2030.
In response, Sierra Club’s Jackie Ostfeld, director of Sierra Club’s Outdoors for All campaign, released the following statement:
“The return of FICOR gives us hope that the Administration’s efforts to expand access to the outdoors will gain ground. The America the Beautiful initiative seeks to provide new opportunities and resources for children, youth and families to forge new connections with the outdoors, regardless of their race, geography or income, and FICOR will play a key role in achieving that. We are excited to see what a revived FICOR can do.”
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with millions of members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.